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100	1		_aKorda, Natasha. _962433
245	1	0	_aLabors lost : _bwomen's work and the early modern English stage / _cNatasha Korda.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _cc2011.
300			_aix, 334 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
520	8		_a"Labors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time. Natasha Korda reveals that the purportedly all-male professional stage relied on the labor, wares, ingenuity, and capital of women of all stripes, including ordinary crafts- and tradeswomen who supplied costumes, props, and comestibles; wealthy heiresses and widows who provided much-needed capital and credit; wives, daughters, and widows of theater people who worked actively alongside their male kin; and immigrant women who fueled the fashion-driven stage with a range of newfangled skills and commodities. Combining archival research on these and other women who worked in and around the playhouses with revisionist readings of canonical and lesser-known plays, Labors Lost retrieves this lost history by detailing the diverse ways women participated in the work of playing, and the ways male players and playwrights in turn helped to shape the cultural meanings of women's work. Far from a marginal phenomenon, the gendered division of theatrical labor was crucial to the rise of the commercial theaters in London and had an influence on the material culture of the stage and the dramatic works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries." -- Provided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-311) and index.
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650		0	_aTheater _zEngland _xHistory _y16th century. _9160354
650		0	_aTheater _zEngland _xHistory _y17th century. _9160355
650		0	_aEnglish drama _yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 _xHistory and criticism. _9160356
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650		0	_aTheater and society _zEngland _xHistory _y16th century. _9160358
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